Overview
From Uncertainty to Opportunity: Design Futures that Matter.
Why do current innovations have unintended consequences? Why is short-termism preached, and why are we dismissing alternative approaches to innovation? And: how can we rethink innovation to inspire real change–not as a way of prolonging the status quo.
This two-day workshop introduces critical futures and foresight, providing innovators and change makers with methods and frameworks to discern transformational shifts. Learn to identify long-term consequences—and harvest opportunities arising from societal challenges, to shape humanity’s future lifeworlds.
This foundational class places great emphasis on rigorous imagination and mastering theory—helping you challenge popular assumptions, overcome inertia, debunk hype. You will learn to embrace uncertainty, to conceive of future visions for wholly new modes of life, best realised by transformational innovation.
Guided by experts, you’ll move from exploring Megatrends and speculative scenarios, to designing better choices. By differentiating technology from disruption, you’ll grasp the economics driving truly radical innovation and apply reliable mechanisms to inform robust change—by design.
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Specifications
- English
- Beginner
- Documentation
Audience
Inspired by learning modes in the musical arts, master classes serve gifted and experienced practioners in furthering their existing base of practical knowledge. This transdisciplinary format brings together entrepeneurs, scientists, designers, educators, and technologists with futures practitioners, systems thinkers, and speculative designers. Ideally, participants arrive with prior practical exposure, agnostic of the discipline, and intense intellectual curiousity in order to equally contribute and receive most out of this learning format. In order to achieve a high standard of study, learners will need to feel comfortable with reading texts, and minimal individual preperatory works prior to the session. This not only increases the quality of, and time-spent in, the masterclass itself – it also makes this format more accessible to other participants.
Bonus
- apply discount code teachone50 for "low income" admission on trust basis
- + Premium Miro Templates
- + Certificate of Completion
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Beyond Silicon Valley
Long coveted as the standard at which world-changing innovation is measured against, the Silicon Valley mode of tech entrepreneurship not just fails society, it threatens planetary capacities. With its monopolising tendencies, Silicon Valley’s big tech firms privatise and manufacture futuristic narratives that we uncritically end up consuming.
- Critical Discourse AnalysisCritical Futures
Uncoding Discourses
Explore how Gigatrends, changes of transformational magnitude, don’t just challenge existing systems, but also give rise to entirely new societal paradigms. Learn to distinguish between shallow hypes and tectonic shifts and map interconnected events to reveal their underlying dynamics.
- GigatrendsHorizon ScanningSocial Wavefront Mapping
Radical Futurities
Ask: ‘What if?’ as you converge systemic shifts as seeds of alternative lifeworlds: Transformational Scenarios. Map constraints, resistance and contengencies that influence change dynamics over time. Detail the conditions of tomorrow’s daily life and co-author, vivid yet provoking narratives and unearth emerging aspirations, needs and problems that might frame future human experiences.
- Actor MappingFutures WheelScenario Design
Futures Architecture
Visualise tomorrow’s human experiences: Co-author vivid and provoking narratives to unearth emerging aspirations, new behaviors or underserved needs. Foster your thinking on new problems or sources for conflicts that may arise. Learn to get a feel for potential solutions to address these gaps through future products, transformational experiences or imaginative solutions.
- Future PersonaFuturegramVisiontyping
Disruption by Design
Breaking with the Status Quo isn’t radical sentiment: it’s an calculated design choice. In this module, you’ll learn what creates transformational innovations that are positioned to win. Learn how, by analysing economic incentives and path dependencies, to trap incumbents in strategic dilemmas – and create undisturbed opportunity spaces to innovate freely.
- Theory of Disruptive InnovationThree Horizons FrameworkValue Curve Modelling
Learn the methodologies and frameworks that form the basis for doing radical futurities.
Beyond Silicon Valley
Long coveted as the standard at which world-changing innovation is measured against, the Silicon Valley mode of tech entrepreneurship not just fails society, it threatens planetary capacities. With its monopolising tendencies, Silicon Valley’s big tech firms privatise and manufacture futuristic narratives that we uncritically end up consuming.
Long coveted as the standard at which world-changing innovation is measured against, the Silicon Valley mode of tech entrepreneurship not just fails society, it threatens planetary capacities. With its monopolising tendencies, Silicon Valley’s big tech firms privatise and manufacture futuristic narratives that we uncritically end up consuming.
- Critical Discourse AnalysisCritical Futures
Uncoding Discourses
Explore how Gigatrends, changes of transformational magnitude, don’t just challenge existing systems, but also give rise to entirely new societal paradigms. Learn to distinguish between shallow hypes and tectonic shifts and map interconnected events to reveal their underlying dynamics.
Explore how Gigatrends, changes of transformational magnitude, don’t just challenge existing systems, but also give rise to entirely new societal paradigms. Learn to distinguish between shallow hypes and tectonic shifts and map interconnected events to reveal their underlying dynamics.
- GigatrendsHorizon ScanningSocial Wavefront Mapping
Radical Futurities
Ask: ‘What if?’ as you converge systemic shifts as seeds of alternative lifeworlds: Transformational Scenarios. Map constraints, resistance and contengencies that influence change dynamics over time. Detail the conditions of tomorrow’s daily life and co-author, vivid yet provoking narratives and unearth emerging aspirations, needs and problems that might frame future human experiences.
Ask: ‘What if?’ as you converge systemic shifts as seeds of alternative lifeworlds: Transformational Scenarios. Map constraints, resistance and contengencies that influence change dynamics over time. Detail the conditions of tomorrow’s daily life and co-author, vivid yet provoking narratives and unearth emerging aspirations, needs and problems that might frame future human experiences.
- Actor MappingFutures WheelScenario Design
Futures Architecture
Visualise tomorrow’s human experiences: Co-author vivid and provoking narratives to unearth emerging aspirations, new behaviors or underserved needs. Foster your thinking on new problems or sources for conflicts that may arise. Learn to get a feel for potential solutions to address these gaps through future products, transformational experiences or imaginative solutions.
- Future PersonaFuturegramVisiontyping
Disruption by Design
Breaking with the Status Quo isn’t radical sentiment: it’s an calculated design choice. In this module, you’ll learn what creates transformational innovations that are positioned to win. Learn how, by analysing economic incentives and path dependencies, to trap incumbents in strategic dilemmas – and create undisturbed opportunity spaces to innovate freely.
- Theory of Disruptive InnovationThree Horizons FrameworkValue Curve Modelling
‘It was deep, personal and genuine: nothing like the usual workshops. Plus, it helped me realign our current innovation portfolio with longterm change and opportunities.’
About our participants
Students arrive with one mandate: Drive societal transformation through innovation. Our learning experiences help them do that.
Format
'Inspired by arts education,
masterclasses iniate learners into advanced practices through expert instruction, intensity, and social learning.'
Social Learning
Each workshop is unique: As a participant you set, and shape your learning objectives within safe, peer-driven spaces.
Small Groups
To maintain a high standard, we limit workshop partication to maximum 15 people to convey commitment to rigour.
Personal Instruction
Your teachers are there to help you build momentum and get started implementing what learn in a real-world environments.
Intensity
Learn how to apply futures on-task by studying cases, building robust theoretical fundamentals and applying intellectual rigour to a further your repertoire of entrepreneurial and innovation methods.
Private Study
Augment your social learning experiences with additional resources and papers for free.
William Chitangala works as a futurist, fusing a decade of practice in emerging technologies, entrepreneurship, and design research to discover, and deploy alternative modes of innovation that transform societies from within.
William Chitangala is a futurist with a fusing his backgrounds in technology, design research and entrepreneurship to discover, develop and deploy alternative modes of building new ventures that transform societies from within.
Time and Dates
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Specifications
- English
- Beginner
- Documentation
Audience
Inspired by learning modes in the musical arts, master classes serve gifted and experienced practioners in furthering their existing base of practical knowledge. This transdisciplinary format brings together entrepeneurs, scientists, designers, educators, and technologists with futures practitioners, systems thinkers, and speculative designers.
Ideally, participants arrive with prior practical exposure, agnostic of the discipline, and intense intellectual curiousity in order to equally contribute and receive most out of this learning format.
In order to achieve a high standard of study, learners will need to feel comfortable with reading texts, and minimal individual preperatory works prior to the session. This not only increases the quality of, and time-spent in, the masterclass itself – it also makes this format more accessible to other participants.
Bonus
- apply discount code teachone50 for "low income" admission on trust basis
- + Premium Miro Templates
- + Certificate of Completion
Downloads
Logistics
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- List Item #2
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Details
- English
- Beginner
- Documentation
Bonus Material
- apply discount code teachone50 for "low income" admission on trust basis
- + Premium Miro Templates
- + Certificate of Completion
Some useful resources
that prepare, enhance and augment your workshop experience.
Some useful resources
that prepare, enhance and augment your workshop experience.
Q: Who is this workshop for?
So far we've welcomed a highly diverse set of people, all united by the prime task to drive societal transformation.
Prior participants include design thinkers, angel investors, UX professionals, sustainable business experts, product innovation managers, marine biologists, software developers, social activists, urban developers, academic researchers, policymakers, technology entrepreneurs – and also classical music pedagogues.
They've all attended with the aim to raise their current expertise with 'futures literacy' for the purposes of applying futures in their fields.
We also recommend this format if you are transitioning careers. We're glad to offer you financial support – you can apply the 'Low Income' ticket by applying teachone50.
Q: Can I join with my team?
Do you want to attend with +3 people from your team or organisation? Reach out at workshops -at- chitangala.io and we'll offer you a group discount.
Q: Do I need to have any prior experience in foresight or futures?
Q: How do you differ from other foresight and futures thinking courses?
Q: Will I get access to the tools and resources from the workshop?
Q: How can I apply for a 'Low Income' ticket?
These are issued on a trust basis using the discount code teachone50 at the checkout page. Please decide carefully for yourself if you wish to apply this discount to keep access open to fellow-innovators in need.
Q: Will I get an official certificate?
Q: What is your refunds policy?
Because of this pre-work, we have developed a refund framework that is fair to you, the other participants, and the educators preparing the session. The first 7 days of your booking? You'll receive a full refund.
Cancelling up to 2 weeks before the event? You'll receive a 50% refund.
Cancelling 2 days before the event? Sorry, no take-backs.
Q: Who can I contact for support?
Support
Q: Who is this workshop for?
Prior participants include business owners, design thinkers, angel investors, UX professionals, sustainable business experts, product innovation managers, marine biologists, software developers, social activists, urban developers, academic researchers, policymakers, technology entrepreneurs – and also classical music pedagogues.
They've all attended with the aim to raise their current expertise with 'futures literacy' for the purposes of applying futures in their fields.
We also recommend this format if you are transitioning careers. We're glad to offer you financial support – you can apply the 'Low Income' ticket by applying teachone50.
Q: Can I join with my team?
Do you want to attend with +3 people from your team or organisation? Reach out at workshops -at- chitangala.io and we'll offer you a group discount.
Q: Do I need to have any prior experience in foresight or futures?
Q: How do you differ from other foresight and futures thinking courses?
Q: Will I get access to the tools and resources from the workshop?
Q: How can I apply for a 'Low Income' ticket?
These are issued on a trust basis using the discount code teachone50 at the checkout page. Please decide carefully for yourself if you wish to apply this discount to keep access open to fellow-innovators in need.
Q: Will I get an official certificate?
Q: What is your refunds policy?
Cancelling up to 2 weeks before the event? You'll receive a 50% refund.
Cancelling 2 days before the event? Sorry, no take-backs.